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Title: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: Bigshooter on July 04, 2016, 05:42:11 AM: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-wolverine-20160629-snap-story.html
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: nwwanderer on July 04, 2016, 06:48:18 AM: A good demonstration of how little we know about most wildlife, thanks for the post
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: Kit Carson on July 04, 2016, 11:36:58 AM: Thanks for sharing. Very interesting article.
Crazy how the rancher called the biologists and it ended up being the M56 wolverine that he shot ..:yike:
Must have been one of the only calls/alerts the biologists got (other than from their own traps)
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: JLS on July 04, 2016, 11:56:35 AM: Wolverines are fascinating. One was sighted north of Inverness, MT a couple of years ago. While I understand a desire to protect your livelihood, I also find it a little sad that the first reaction is to shoot the wolverine.
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: Kit Carson on July 04, 2016, 01:32:11 PM: Not sure if he knew what it was before shooting... :dunno:
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: JakeLand on July 04, 2016, 02:57:19 PM: Well growing up on working cattle farms anything that messed with our living got swift justice plain and simple it's no different from coyotes, wolves or prairie dogs for that Matter a calf is $1,000 right from the beginning and more as it gets older :twocents:
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: KFhunter on July 04, 2016, 04:17:05 PM: very interesting thanks for sharing
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: hollymaster on July 04, 2016, 04:45:10 PM: M56 sure was a traveler. :yike:
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: TVHunts on July 04, 2016, 05:33:44 PM: That was a great read, thanks for posting it.
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on July 05, 2016, 09:58:10 AM: They are amazing. When I worked in Wyoming, there were believed to be a small handful in the state. Two old ranchers told me about seeing one in antelope country in the 1940s, and as a learned professional biologist I immediately assumed they had seen a muddy badger. Less than a month later, an adult male turned up in a fenceline coyote snare north of Cheyenne in short grass prairie habitat. That is about 400 miles from the nearest known habitat as the crow flies, and about 90 miles further south and east than where Labin and Jack had seen the wolverine in the 40s. I began to think they had probably seen a wolverine.

Two years later, in the middle of winter, near Kaycee Wyoming, a rancher called about an animal that had killed 9 or so sheep in his winter pasture - still 300 miles or so from wolverine habitat. In a neat twist of fate, USDA had an employee who had transferred to Wyoming from Alaska, where he'd previously worked wolverine depredations on domestic sheep. He was able to confirm the kills as wolverine. No idea where that one went from there.

Satellite transmitters are revealing more about their movements - but they are about as mysterious a mid-sized wild critter as any in North America.
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: predatorpro on July 06, 2016, 08:05:50 PM: They are in the entiat....have been for a few years now
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: UBA on July 06, 2016, 08:17:11 PM: Quote from: predatorpro on July 06, 2016, 08:05:50 PM
They are in the entiat....have been for a few years now

Seen that one a few years ago. I think the pics are still hanging at the ranger station. Wonder where it went after the fire.
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: predatorpro on July 06, 2016, 10:03:56 PM: Quote from: UBA on July 06, 2016, 08:17:11 PM
Quote from: predatorpro on July 06, 2016, 08:05:50 PM
They are in the entiat....have been for a few years now

Seen that one a few years ago. I think the pics are still hanging at the ranger station. Wonder where it went after the fire.
Not sure! I know they had atleast a few collared up there...I'll see what I can't find out! I know a guy! Lol
Title: Re: Tenacious, mysterious and maybe endangered — a wolverine roams the West
Post by: JakeLand on July 07, 2016, 09:24:19 PM: Just read a article that 3 were trapped and collared in the Stevens pass area in I believe 2013